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Sat 27 Jan 2018 Results

I was wondering the same thing about Nabeya, but Denso prevailed over JT and takes the 3rd seat (over Toyota) by virtue of Total Set Points 42-41 vs 41-40. (They weren't trying to take the #2 seed from JT, that's out of range). Toyota did all they could, winning their last 6 in a row, but, alas. Denso's payback for the Empress Cup.

13:00 Ageo Medics v Hisamitsu Springs 0–3
13:00 NEC Red Rockets v Toyota Body Queens 1–3
15:00 JT Marvelous v Denso Airybees 1–3
15:00 Toray Arrows v Hitachi Rivale 1–3
Ageo v Hisamitsu: Didn't watch it, but I'm surprised Hisamitsu continued to play their NT players. Okay, Whoopdy Do! Hisamitsu (most likely) goes undefeated for the season. Congratulations
NEC v Toyota: Oh well. NEC, they let me down. They brought in Yanagita(OP) and Yamaguchi(S) midway in the first set and I thought that meant they wanted to win. They took the first set to overtime but lost it. Then they crushed it in Set 2=25-16. Then failure. Oh well With a win tonight (unlikely) against JT and a Toray loss against Hisamitsu, NEC can capture 5th place--which is only a teeny weeny bit less embarrassing than 6th place for the reigning champions.

JT v Denso: JT gave the starting spot back to Kitsui over mid-season pickup Meguro. Kitsui went 2/16. Oops! Brankica=24/75. Yawn. #1 Aika Akutagawa. Fact.=9/24, which is a lot of swings for a pipsqueak MB. She also had 5 blocks. I wonder if she'll marry me. We'll never know why Nabeya hardly played 0/0, but Sakamoto, Furst, and Marvel Comics Superhero Kudo had decent games. Sakamoto went 20/60 with a couple blocks and an ace. Kudo went 12/40 with 4 blocks and an ace. Furst was 11/15 with no errors and 4 blocks. I'm really happy for Denso. Beating JT without My Little Sweet Pea, Airi Tahara setting tells me they still got something. Definitely the feel good surprise team of the year. They played in the minors last year. Welcome back!
Toray v Hitachi: Haven't watched this one yet. Poor Toray. That's 4 losses in a row and they play Hisamitsu tonight. They looked so promising earlier in the year. Kurogo=12/40; only 3 service errors; reception was 53/31/9. I've expressed disappointment in Kurogo, but for a kid to come into the league at 19 years old and receive over 100 more serves than Yuki Ishii ... respect!

In Japan many matches are played at neutral sites. One team will be considered the home team for those matches.
With the new VLeague next year, it will change to more of a home arena setting. There will still be a few neutral sites, but way fewer than before.

FINAL 6 Schedule

To the best of my Google Translate abilities, I think this is it. Not sure about the times. I think they are all played at the same time, 11:00 Japan Time for the Saturday games, 13:00 for the Sunday games, but I dunno

This is my first year watching, or paying attention anyway, so I can't help with an answer.

Yes, they have been the norm, other than some weekends when only one match is played per team, which can be one match only. Men did it earlier this year as two matches in the same venue between 4 teams over 2 days, so a little odd.

Saturday games are tripleheader, back to back to back. Start at 11:00 with 20-30 minutes before the following match and then the same for the last match.

the players i like and remember from the matches i have watched : Kudo,Osanai,number 2 from JT,Horikawa..Neriman's teammate Takahashi is not bad either.she seems to be an athletic player
Nabeya is already an NT member so i already expected good/better from her..
i think there are a few other names but i cant remember what their names or their teams are..i havent watch many matches